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Cannes 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis Review

Inside Llewyn Davis

The Greenwich Village Folk scene of the early sixties provides the setting for the Coen Brothers’ wonderfully meandering portrait of a struggling folk musician. The folk setting does not define Inside Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) though, Llewyn is in many ways more a representative of artists in general and in particular one struggling to have [...]




The Hangover Part III Review

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If you speak to just about anyone over the age of 30, they’ll tell you that hangovers get worse with age. Well, on this evidence, they’re right, as we get ready to step back into Todd Phillips’ The Hangover franchise, with the third and – thankfully – final addition to the celebrated comedy. Having survived [...]




Cannes 2013: Behind the Candelabra Review

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Whilst Side Effects has received a lot of publicity for potentially being Steven Soderbergh’s last film, the HBO produced Behind the Candelabra is currently playing in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and will receive a theatrical release throughout Europe next month. ‘TV Movies’ have played Cannes before and they will no doubt play here [...]




Cannes 2013: Takashi Miike’s Wara No Tate Review

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Takashi Miike returns to Cannes with perhaps his most conventional film yet, an overblown but highly entertaining thriller about five cops transporting a despicable child murderer across Japan. Tatsuya Fujiwara, who is perhaps best know in the West for his portrayal of the naive and sweet Nanahara in Kinji Fukasaku’s Battle Royale, plays Kiyomaru, the [...]




Broadchurch DVD review

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Broadchurch is the immensely popular, and some might say surprise, hit TV drama of the year so far with David Tennant and Olivia Colman in the starring roles against a backdrop of gorgeous Dorset scenery and a puzzling death of a young boy in a quiet seaside community. Enter grizzled detective DI Alex Hardy (David [...]




Epic Review

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Rivalling DreamWorks and Pixar animation studios is certainly no easy task, but Blue Sky Studios are triumphantly getting along with things, consistently making a profit on their reasonable back catalogue. Boasting the likes of Rio and the popular Ice Age franchise, they now return with Chris Wedge’s Epic, an adventure in the Honey, I Shrunk [...]




Cannes 2013: La Danza de la Realidad Review

La Danza de la Realidad

Jodorowsky returns with his first feature film in over twenty years – his last being the rather disappointing and atypical The Rainbow Thief – the bewitching La Danza de la Realidad (The Dance of Reality). An adaptation of his autobiographical book of the same name La Danza de la Realidad is obviously a deeply personal [...]




Cannes 2013: Jeune & Jolie Review

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François Ozon, the former enfant terrible of French Cinema, returns after his career best In the House with a rather sedate, even if it is occasionally mildly provocative, character study into the sexual awakening of a seventeen year-old girl. Isabelle, the girl in question, is played by Marine Vacth, an actress for who this will [...]




Cannes 2013: Heli Review

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A depressing insight into a poor family in Mexico makes for uneasy if occasionally powerful viewing in Heli, Amat Escalante’s third feature following Sangre in 2005 and Los bastardos  in 2008. Heli is named after its central character, a poor young man who works at a local Japanese Automobile factory and lives with his partner, [...]




Craig Campbell Live Review

Craig Campbell Live

There are too few hirsute funny men in the world. The smooth, or pretentiously stubble’d, of chin still dominate at making us chortle. Fortunately charismatic comedian Craig Campbell will continue to right that wrong when he debuts his eccentric live show on iTunes this week. Already well established on the circuit and still touring his [...]




Cannes 2013: The Bling Ring Review

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Based on real events and inspired by an article in Vanity Fair, Sofia Coppola’s latest directorial turn concerns itself with those that emulate the kind of characters she has previously devoted whole films to; Dorff’s Johnny Marco in Somewhere, Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette and to a lesser extent Bill Murray’s Bob Harris in Lost [...]




The Great Gatsby Review

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If possible, it’s important to distance yourself from the original F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of which this Baz Luhrmann adaptation of The Great Gatsby is based upon, as although naturally sharing the same narrative as the 1925 masterpiece, comparisons are somewhat futile, as this is so much more a lavish, typically grandiose Luhrmann production, than [...]




The Liability Review

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It seems cameraman-cum-director Craig Viveiros fancies himself as a bit of a ‘British Tarantino’ with his second feature, The Liability. He even employs the services of one of Pulp Fiction and Resevoir Dogs’ actors, Tim Roth, to evoke that clever magic. Indeed, at the heart of this road movie is a more superior, darkly comedic [...]




Fast & Furious 6 Review

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Like the characters in the franchise, director Justin Lin reassembles his trustworthy team of writers Chris Morgan and Gary Scott Thompson to pen another episode of the adrenaline-pumping, big-action smashing and testosterone-dripping Fast & Furious mayhem that throws reality and caution to the wind in Version 6. Rio’s favelas played host last time in 2011 [...]




Sundance London 2013 – The Kings of Summer Review

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Joe Toy (Nick Robinson) is fed up with his life at home. His older sister is moving away and he can’t bear the thought of spending the whole summer at home alone with his father (Nick Offerman), who we first meet mercilessly chastising Joe for masturbating in the shower. Ever since his mother died his [...]




Sundance London 2013 – A.C.O.D. Review

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A fantastic cast of talented comic and character actors have assembled for A.C.O.D. (Adult Children of Divorce), but unfortunately that only makes its failures all the more disappointing. Adam Scott, who’s reliably great each week on TV’s Parks and Recreation, leads the cast as Carter, a man still caught between his warring parents years after [...]




Sundance London 2013 – Muscle Shoals Review

Muscle Shoals

It may sound like the title of a nature documentary, but Muscle Shoals actually takes its title from the name of a small town in Alabama, which became the breeding ground for some of the most defining American music of the twentieth century. Director Greg Camalier tells the story of the town and its iconic [...]




Deadfall Review

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Austrian filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky – the director behind the Academy Award winning The Counterfeiters, returns with his first proper Hollywood film (well, that’s if you discount the rather obscure Matt LeBlanc and Eddie Izzard feature All the Queen’s Men) with his tense and riotously entertaining thriller Deadfall. A film that, although certainly flawed, has enough [...]




Endeavour – Series One DVD Review

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You have to wonder just how far the senior execs at ITV’s drama department got into the first episode of Sherlock before decided to rip it off. My guess would be not very. It must have been utterly galling, for a network whose dramatic output had thrived on shows about brilliant detectives like Poirot, Marple [...]




A Hijacking Review

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Having not necessarily seen the poster, the film title automatically assumes a plane takeover at several thousand feet, like so many films before. However, this is a story of ‘terrorists at sea’ with writer-director Tobias Lindholm (The Hunt), putting to bed the romantic notion of swashbuckling pirates with a frank and tension-pounding pseudo-documentary account (based [...]